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by rifung 7y ago
Alternatively we could just make it a protected class like we do with age/sex/race. That has its own issues but at least it'd be consistent.
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by rifung 7y ago
> It is extremely hard to learn, has an extremely confusing + needlessly complicated syntax and I agree with your other points but what's wrong with the syntax? I actually really like the syntax for the most part
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by rifung 7y ago
> What we know now, is that making something illegal, could make it stronger. If Bitcoin becomes illegal in most country, would the price go up or down? Suddenly there is a black market, and opens up a whole other can of worms, so govern
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by rifung 7y ago
Indeed, actions speak louder than words, but in this specific case, making a public statement is itself a very significant action. After all, it was nothing but public statements that are the center of the controversy.
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by rifung 7y ago
> Programming is also a fun activity in and of itself I get lots of enjoyment out of just like I get enjoyment from those other things. That fact that I do it at work as ZERO influence on my enjoyment of it I think that's totally aw
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by rifung 7y ago
> I mean, at the end of the day, it's learning the functional programming concepts that is supposedly going to make you a better programmer. Why not just start learning those in Java, Python, JS, etc.? That could totally be possible
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by rifung 7y ago
But I thought Google's first offerings was App Engine? If anything I think they were overambitious (I work for Google, opinions are my own)
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by rifung 7y ago
> It's disappointing how so much money is being poured into "mechanical keyboard kits" that simply re-create the old ANSI/ISO layouts that are rooted in old limitations from the days of the typewriter. Alternate layou
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by rifung 7y ago
> Since then I vowed never to take things seriously that have zero connection to real world results. It's not possible to regret mastering x86 assembly for example, because even if that skill is relatively useless, it makes you bett
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by rifung 7y ago
> For people saying dual screen is a gimmick, have you not wanted to replicate multi-screen setup on your laptop (while traveling or when not on your desktop)? Power users have always wanted more screen real estate! Can't say I have
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by rifung 7y ago
> Using managed services leads to writing less code and minimizing devops work, both resulting in more time for feature development that takes less time overall and produces higher quality service (latency, availability, etc). Well, not
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by rifung 7y ago
> they have funny holes in their knowledge -- CS theory that you'd only pick up from a CS textbook, stuff like Big O notation or A* search I don't have a degree but made it far enough in school to take algorithms and we didn&#x
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by rifung 7y ago
That would make sense if both parents were the only ones facing equal repercussions but alas an innocent child potentially has to suffer in the process.
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by rifung 7y ago
> It doesn't really cost anything to open source something though. Yes, it costs next to nothing to just open source a project if you mean literally just putting the source on some hosting site. However, open sourcing something prop
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by rifung 7y ago
> Is the US economy so fragile that it can be thought-crimed into a recession? I think those in Behavioral Finance would argue yes, at least to a certain extent. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/07/shiller-self
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by rifung 7y ago
> It turns out people are diverse anyway and that's why not everyone end up in tech That's true but also ignores the problem that many people drop out of tech due to discrimination or feeling like they don't belong even th
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by rifung 7y ago
This is exactly why Donald Knuth doesn't give out checks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
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by rifung 7y ago
Some would argue that she was coerced because of the vast power difference in their respective positions. It's part of the reason you aren't supposed to have relationships with someone you manage.
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by rifung 7y ago
> I now consider myself one of these people. I've written and shipped a number of business applications, but have little understanding of CS concepts and was unable to complete some leetcode problems I tried a while back. I don&#x27
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by rifung 7y ago
> Those of you (US) with large stock/cash positions: what are you doing to weather the (inevitable) storm I follow the traditional advice of doing nothing and not trying to time the market.
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by rifung 7y ago
> It most definitely is not unethical. Illegal perhaps, but unethical? Please. I would argue it IS unethical. When speaking of ethics, the intention matters. If they were just offering these tools to security researchers at cost or for f
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by rifung 7y ago
> Perhaps the whole EULA thing is old news but I'm still not sure if I'm bound to every condition stated in a EULA when my cat clicks "Agree"... I thought at one point, the courts ruled that EULAs are pretty toothless
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by rifung 7y ago
> I think you've overlooked the fact that enriching investors IS enriching its workers, because they are generally given real stock grants upon employment, and gradually as time goes by. Only in the same sense that tax cuts benefits
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by rifung 7y ago
"The cloud (aws, gcloud, azure... whatever) is a piece of shit. 10x price for 1/10th performance (so 100x price haha)" This ignores the pay of the extra people you need to pay to build/maintain your infrastructure..
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by rifung 7y ago
> On the less evil side it seems like employees waste a lot of time on these internal sites and all the internal social justice stuff. I work at Google, opinions are my own. If anything, having your employees spend their time on a intern
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by rifung 7y ago
I don't think you need to be a returning intern to get the cash bonus. At least I got one without being an intern
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by rifung 7y ago
Ah I think you might be right! But to be totally honest, I really don't care for PWAs either.. Maybe I am just too old fashioned but I don't care for my web apps having offline functionality. That being said, I am not familiar wit
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by rifung 7y ago
Right but I think the issue would then be that if more people became aware FB owns all these brands, there might be an even larger voter push to get them to be broken up, whereas right now people don't know and this care.
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by rifung 7y ago
To be honest I don't know too much about what's been added but I can only assume new functionality must account for the increased bloat. I imagine it's support for things like "Chrome Apps" or more generally the des
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by rifung 7y ago
> I'd really like to work for Mozilla on Mozilla products, but somehow the interview process is broken. I've managed to go through 3 interviews (2 technical, one with the team-coordinator) but then was rejected because they&#x2

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